Remembering Auschwitz
Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp from Nazi control 67 years ago today. Ever since that day, Auschwitz has been a byword of horror for all of humanity, a warning of the depths of depravity to which even the most “civilized” people can descend. I visited Auschwitz in July 1995 after my sophomore year [...]
Bearing witness
My friend Revi Sterling, director of the Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, sent out a heads-up Tweet yesterday, and because of it, I got to hear Juliana Rotich speak. Rotich, for those of you who haven’t heard of her, is a cofounder of the crowdsourcing platform Ushahidi, an increasingly influential [...]
First summer project
I first knew the term “summer project” as the shorthand way of referring to the summer mission trips I went on during my college days. The international student organization I went with on those trips founded its first “summer project” in Ocean City, NJ, in 1965 to train students in Christian evangelism and discipleship. I [...]
Not yet a footnote
I came across a startling fact yesterday in doing some research for an upcoming profile of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., – some suspects in Civil Rights-era killings have yet to be successfully prosecuted. In a Nov. 28, 2011, blog post Jerry Mitchell, an award-winning investigative reporter for the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, said that included two living [...]
New name, New Site, New Year
The faith-inspired non-profit initiative Sharing Their Story (STS) is, as of midnight on Jan. 1, 2012, now called Everyday Epics (EE). Our new name embodies our commitment to sharing the true story of need from around the world, as well as our own small attempts to write ourselves into the story of need around us. [...]
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